Pay perils

Public servants take part in a protest calling on the federal government to fix its Phoenix payroll system in 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

TORONTO — A Toronto woman was apparently “terrified” to receive a long-awaited payroll deposit from her employer recently.

Kuini Chuen, a Health Canada chemist, had been waiting three months for a paycheque after the federal government’s disastrous Phoenix payroll system failed to deliver pay to hundreds of thousands of employees.

But when it finally came, Chuen wasn’t sure if she should touch the funds, according to the CBC.